City Corner: Please remember, effective emergency preparedness means ensuring ALL your family members have access to Citizen Alerts, including older children with cellphones.
Herbert Rothschild: Might it be that cults cease to be regarded as cults when they become mainstream? When their unconventional beliefs and practices gain enough adherents to become conventional?
City Corner: All tourist accommodations require approval from the Planning Department. This includes short-term rentals offered through online platforms like Airbnb.
Herbert Rothschild: I couldn’t help asking myself, if Biden is so impaired now, what will he be like in 2026, 2027 and 2028?
Daniel Cooke: Deer in Ashland are inevitable. How about we learn to appreciate and live with wildlife? It’s not always easy, but it can bring you peace.
Herbert Rothschild: What we haven’t heard in the public forum is informed discussion about whether immigration is desirable. We need that discussion to counter the vilification of immigrants on the one hand and mere altruism on the other.
City Corner: If you are interested in running and have questions after reading this, please set up an appointment with our city recorder. We’re here to help.
Conde Cox: These deer also destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of landscaping in our city every year.
Debra Wilson: People need to quit blaming the deer for protecting their young. Any good parent would do the same thing.
Dan Belenky: Kenyans have soundly rejected draconian new taxes on foods, vehicles and — most important — energy.
Pam Hammond beamed earlier this week while talking about new plans in store for downtown Ashland’s Paddington Station sister stores, The Jewel Box and Inspired By Oregon, which are consolidating and moving into the prominent Fortmiller building across the street.
Ashland councilors Gina DuQuenne and Dylan Bloom on Wednesday gave Southern Oregon University students a lesson in how to express mutual admiration even while disagreeing. The councilors met with 15 students at Britt Hall to discuss voting, Ashland-centered topics and how to bridge the communication gap between the SOU campus and Ashland.
Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
Bob Palermini, professional photographer, will give a presentation about photojournalism at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting on October 15 in Medford. He studied photojournalism in college and has been a photographer for Ashland.news since shortly after it debuted in January 2022.
Herbert Rothschild: It would be stunning if the presidential candidates were asked during a debate whether they are disturbed by the prospect of leaving office with blood on their hands.
A quarter-mile stretch of Walker Avenue between the railroad tracks and East Main Street will be closed Friday, Oct. 11, and Monday, Oct. 14, so roadwork can be done,the city of Ashland announced Thursday. Profiling and grinding work is planned for 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, while overlay is set to be laid down Monday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m
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